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Phone call to Iran results in criminal charges against caller

  • Bryan Cave LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 4 2012

Diocenyr Ribamar Barbosa-Santos, an airline mechanic, was recently charged with violating the Iran sanctions in connection with a wildly improbable deal in which the mechanic was accused of brokering seven Airbus commercial passenger jets to Iran for $136.5 million

Southern Air files Chapter 11 petitions for bankruptcy in Delaware

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 3 2012

On September 28, 2012, Southern Air Holdings, along with various related entities, filed chapter 11 petitions in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

Middle east update - July 2012

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Turkey, United Arab Emirates
  • -
  • July 17 2012

This Update is produced on a monthly basis

U.S. Supreme Court limits the scope of "actual damages" in the federal Privacy Act

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 6 2012

In its March 28 decision in Federal Aviation Administration v. Cooper, the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted the federal Privacy Act of 1974 and held that the term "actual damages," as used in the Act, does not include damages for mental or emotional distress

Ninth Circuit affirms foreign nationals' standing to challenge "no-fly list" inclusion

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 23 2012

In a decision likely to impact foreign nationals as well as airlines, airports, and related insurers, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed a lower court ruling which held that a Malaysian citizen studying in the U.S. has legal standing to sue in U.S. courts to challenge the mistaken presence of her name on the No-Fly List

Lloyds of London v Syria: Insurer recovers monies paid out under US Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act

  • Morton Fraser
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 30 2011

This US case arises from the fallout of the hijacking in 1985 of an Air Egypt flight from Athens to Cairo

Administrative & court decisions

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 7 2011

The NLRB held that a successor employer that acquires the assets of a unionized hospital must recognize and bargain with a union that initially demanded bargaining with an inappropriate employee unit, but later “perfected” the unit by dropping several job categories

EU political update 11 - 15 July 2011

  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • July 11 2011

On 6 July 2011, the Commission presented a proposal aiming to provide a longterm solution to the cost associated with using mobile devices while travelling throughout the EU

Governmental tort immunity statute of limitations does not bar breach of contract claims

  • Faegre Baker Daniels
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 8 2011

Faced with a question of first impression, the Illinois Appellate Court recently determined that the Local Government Tort Immunity Act's one-year statute of limitations does not trump the 10-year limitations period for an action based on a breach of contract arising from a single event resulting in property damage

California district court holds claims by blind individuals involving automated check-in kiosks preempted

  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 30 2011

The Northern District of California has been adjudicating whether United Airlines' use of a certain type of automated kiosk violates California's anti-discrimination statutes or whether such state law claims are impliedly preempted by the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) or expressly preempted by the Airline Deregulation Act (ADA

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